Astonishing Birth Control Option

Elemental sex education clarifies about the so-dubbed ‘pull-out’ technique being an undependable and dicey birth control option. However, a new-fangled study indicates that in regards to preventing pregnancy, pull-out appears to work with analogous efficacy as a condom could offer. So, the confounding query prevails on whether withdrawal method could be endorsed as a means of pregnancy prevention. Which birth control option would have greater efficacy – a condom or pull-out technique?

For those educating on sex and others, the rejoinder is agonizingly perceptible. Withdrawing prior to ejaculating, the so-dubbed ‘pullout’ technique is the final option that is to be employed solely when dearth of any other choices. Conversely, the efficacy of condoms is well established.

Hence, reproductive specialists were surprised by the report printed in Contraception publication, pronouncing that withdrawal had nearly similar efficacy as the male condoms – at least in regards to averting conception.

The authors have written that in case the man pulls out prior to ejaculating on every occasion the pair have vaginal sex, nearly four percent of pairs would conceive over the span of a year’s time.

Condoms usage when done correctly has a nearly two percent rate. However more significantly, the authors have mentioned are the rates of normal usage, as an individual could not always be able to use any birth control option flawlessly on every occasion. Typical usage of the withdrawal method leads to conception in eighteen percent of the cases, the authors have written; in case of normal use of condoms chances of pregnancy are seventeen percent.

Even with other techniques that have greater efficacy, Pills and patches have failure rate of eight percent, Depo-Provera shots have three percent failure rate whereas for diaphragm it is sixteen percent. Intrauterine device (IUD) has a failure rate of below one percent of the occasions.

The author helming the study, Rachel K. Jones from the Guttmacher Inst. that researches reproductive health issues states that she and her associates were not advocating the withdrawal method, instead were advocating speaking about it. Jones stated that withdrawal is a widely dismissed contraception method, though many women have used it at some stage in their lives. She stated that it did appear rational to contrast the withdrawal technique to condoms as health care experts have no issues promoting condoms despite them having certain flaws.

Worries ride high among sex educators and doctors that advocating this method would only fuel teens into engaging in unprotected sexual behaviours. However authors have pointed that disparate to a condom, pullout technique fails to safeguard from STDs or sexually transmitted diseases, a potent basis for encouraging condom usage.

Others say that withdrawal is preferable as it is a smell and chemical-free way of having sex. The study outcomes indicate that in correctly and consistently using withdrawal method could significantly lower chances of conception.

Some argue over the point that in regards to reliability any technique employed repeatedly is bound to have a high failure chances. Also in several circumstances, even well-meaning males could go off beam or some men were just not able to get it right despite having said so.

The nervous truth out there is that withdrawal method is better than no measure taken and is available at all times, though one needs to tread with caution in such grey areas.

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